Tag: patents
Don’t let ‘FDA-approved’ or ‘patented’ in ads give you a false...
Michael Mattioli, Indiana University
If you’ve ever reached for a bottle of moisturizer labeled “patented” or “FDA approved,” you...
When authoritative sources hold onto bad data: A legal scholar explains...
Janet Freilich, Fordham University
In 2004, Hwang Woo-suk was celebrated for his breakthrough discovery creating cloned human embryos, and...
In rural America, right-to-repair laws are the leading edge of a...
Leland Glenna, Penn State
As tractors became more sophisticated over the past two decades, the big manufacturers allowed farmers...
Why Moderna won’t share rights to the COVID-19 vaccine with the...
Ana Santos Rutschman, Saint Louis University
A quiet monthslong legal fight between the U.S. National Institutes of Health and...
Too few women get to invent – that’s a problem for...
Rem Koning, Harvard Business School
MacArthur Genius and MIT professor Linda Griffith has built an epic career as a...
Why some counties are powerhouses for innovation
Christopher Boone, Arizona State University
By the time the application window closed, Amazon had received 238 proposals from cities and regions throughout North America looking...
Hiring highly educated immigrants leads to more innovation and better products
Gaurav Khanna, University of California San Diego and Munseob Lee, University of California San Diego
Much of the current debate over immigration is about what...
How talented kids from low-income families become America’s ‘Lost Einsteins’
Alexander Bell, Harvard University; John Van Reenen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Raj Chetty, Stanford University, and Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics and Political...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
